Usenet Statistics (1997/01/24 - 1997/01/24)

Average daily rate: 269.38 Mb, 104589 articles

• Top 20 feeding sites:
  • by volume
  • by article count
• Top 20 newsgroups:
  • by volume
  • by article count
• Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies:
  • by volume
  • by article count
• Average volume and article count:
  • by day
  • by hour
  • by weekday

Top 20 feeding sites by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	190.06	70.56
2	uunet	51.95	19.28
3	news-out.internetmci.com	27.36	10.16
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.00
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	78561	75.11
2	uunet	24794	23.71
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1227	1.17
4	newsmaster	7	0.01
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	7.31	2.71
2	alt.sex.exhibitionism	5.37	1.99
3	misc.jobs.offered	4.22	1.57
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.19	1.18
5	us.jobs.offered	3.08	1.14
6	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	2.80	1.04
7	alt.sex.trans	2.72	1.01
8	biz.jobs.offered	2.35	0.87
9	alt.sex.pictures	2.15	0.80
10	alt.sex.pictures.female	2.14	0.79
11	misc.jobs.contract	1.86	0.69
12	ba.jobs.offered	1.79	0.66
13	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	1.57	0.58
14	comp.jobs.offered	1.54	0.57
15	alt.sex.stories	1.41	0.52
16	us.jobs.contract	1.35	0.50
17	alt.sex.pictures.male	1.33	0.50
18	news.newusers.questions	1.30	0.48
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1.27	0.47
20	rec.arts.comics.marketplace	1.26	0.47

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	7395	7.07
2	us.jobs.offered	6592	6.30
3	biz.jobs.offered	5337	5.10
4	comp.jobs.offered	4254	4.07
5	misc.jobs.contract	4001	3.83
6	us.jobs.contract	3516	3.36
7	ba.jobs.offered	3017	2.88
8	prg.jobs	1230	1.18
9	comp.jobs	1137	1.09
10	news.newusers.questions	1119	1.07
11	us.jobs	1014	0.97
12	alt.sex.pictures	812	0.78
13	tx.jobs	805	0.77
14	alt.jobs	777	0.74
15	la.jobs	742	0.71
16	nj.jobs	707	0.68
17	alt.sex.pictures.female	681	0.65
18	talk.politics.misc	681	0.65
19	ba.jobs.contract	680	0.65
20	alt.sex.exhibitionism	656	0.63

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	98.59	36.60
2	rec	62.19	23.09
3	alt.binaries	40.02	14.86
4	alt.sex	39.36	14.61
5	comp	29.93	11.11
6	alt.binaries.pictures	23.18	8.60
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	19.29	7.16
8	misc	15.81	5.87
9	rec.arts	11.89	4.41
10	rec.games	10.26	3.81
11	comp.sys	9.82	3.65
12	alt.binaries.warez	8.04	2.98
13	alt.fan	8.00	2.97
14	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	7.46	2.77
15	misc.jobs	7.01	2.60
16	rec.music	6.50	2.41
17	alt.sex.pictures	6.21	2.31
18	alt.sex.fetish	5.98	2.22
19	us	5.71	2.12
20	biz	5.48	2.03

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	65743	62.86
2	rec	40238	38.47
3	alt.sex	29463	28.17
4	comp	28073	26.84
5	misc	19356	18.51
6	misc.jobs	12433	11.89
7	us	12349	11.81
8	us.jobs	11960	11.44
9	biz	7991	7.64
10	comp.sys	7853	7.51
11	misc.jobs.offered	7482	7.15
12	rec.arts	6687	6.39
13	us.jobs.offered	6628	6.34
14	alt.binaries	6613	6.32
15	alt.fan	5747	5.50
16	biz.jobs	5714	5.46
17	comp.jobs	5487	5.25
18	alt.binaries.pictures	5405	5.17
19	rec.games	5358	5.12
20	biz.jobs.offered	5337	5.10

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/24	269.36	100.00			104581	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	12.18	4.52			4979	4.76
01	5.74	2.13			2470	2.36
02	4.17	1.55			1756	1.68
03	5.01	1.86			2409	2.30
04	7.19	2.67			3065	2.93
05	12.76	4.74			5164	4.94
06	12.51	4.64			5097	4.87
07	12.41	4.61			5396	5.16
08	14.47	5.37			5310	5.08
09	13.75	5.10			5270	5.04
10	12.44	4.62			5312	5.08
11	15.47	5.74			5734	5.48
12	16.80	6.24			5620	5.37
13	13.26	4.92			4627	4.42
14	8.09	3.01			3063	2.93
15	8.85	3.28			3607	3.45
16	11.32	4.20			4442	4.25
17	11.35	4.21			4563	4.36
18	12.48	4.63			4833	4.62
19	8.12	3.01			2993	2.86
20	9.20	3.42			3528	3.37
21	13.63	5.06			4926	4.71
22	14.17	5.26			4962	4.74
23	14.01	5.20			5455	5.22

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Friday	269.36	100.00			104581	100.00